Susie York Skinner, NYJO’s Chief Executive Officer, will be stepping down this summer after three successful years at the charity. During her tenure, Susie has successfully navigated the post-Covid difficulties that beset so many arts charities, restructured our team and refreshed the Board of Trustees. In 2021, she oversaw the charity’s move to our new home at Woolwich Works, from where we have been able to develop new and exciting community activity to complement our thriving national Learning and Emerging Professionals’ programmes.
In her final few months with NYJO, in collaboration with our Head of Programmes, Vikki Maudave, Susie will embed recent strategic developments that will sow the seeds for pivotal changes to NYJO’s artistic activity, diversifying our musical output and leadership and enabling us to respond increasingly well to beneficiary needs and feedback.
Vikki Maudave commented:
Susie has brought care and kindness to the heart of what NYJO is and does. She has led our small staff team through a challenging three years with generosity of spirit, care and attention. Her work has put NYJO in a considerably more stable position, with a renewed strategic direction and increased capacity to serve young musicians across the UK.
Susie leaves NYJO to return to Gabrieli, with whom she worked from 2011 to 2019, as their new Chief Executive. Here she will develop professional performance and touring activities whilst also delivering an exciting expansion of Gabrieli Roar, the charity’s youth singing programme.
Projjol Banerjea, Chair of the NYJO Board said:
Working with Susie has been a pleasure and one of the highlights of my professional career. I wish her the very best in her new adventures. She leaves NYJO strengthened and invigorated to embrace upcoming opportunities.
Susie will remain with NYJO on an extended notice period until late August; we are delighted that Starfish Search will be leading our recruitment drive to appoint a new CEO.